Dr Tamrat Tesfaye (Associate Professor), Scientific Director (Vice President) of Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology of Bahir Dar University studied at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and obtained PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2018. A highly accomplished higher education executive with substantial management experience, he is a pre-eminent scientist in the field of Chemical Engineering and specifically in Biopolymers and Biomaterials. He has successfully graduated over 30 Masters & 4 PhDs students. Dr Tesfaye has published in excess of 60 peer-reviewed papers and has presented in excess of 50 papers at conferences. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Ethiopian Journal of Textile & Apparel and Ethiopian Electronic Journal of Innovation and Technology Foresight. He is a recipient of various national & international awards & a member of various industry & academic bodies, amongst others the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences & Ethiopian Journal’s Editors forum.
